Today (er, late last night) we publicly released the latest version of Wicker, our Ubuntu-based operating system that runs on every RedPost/Sign. This version is now compatible with the fit-PC2 and includes the following updates: 8.04 security updates (we’re still on 8.04 as that’s what the fit-PC2 supports) re-worked kernel for compatability with fit-PC2, including SMP [...]
This isn’t for the faint of heart, aka, those afraid of the command line, but if you’re running RedPost/Wicker (our customized version of Ubuntu that runs on all our hardware), you can schedule your screen on and off using a handy little script we built. Here’s how: boot your Sign hit “ctrl-alt-f1″ to go to [...]
Just posted to our Sourceforge page, the newest version of Wicker is now available for download. CHANGELOG NEW FEATURES: – config process now supports ralink-based wifi cards UPGRADES: – new RedPost branding – Adobe Flash 10.0.12.36 – Firefox 3.0.4 – all Ubuntu 8.04 security updates – now using ext3 filesystem for casper-rw BUG FIXES: – [...]
Today, we had our 2,000th download of RedPost/OpenSource, our open source effort. The main component, called Wicker, runs on all our Signs. The first of our open source offerings were in May of 2007. The files are all hosted here, on Sourceforge.net. Congrats to whoever the 2,000th downloader was! Chart stolen from Sourceforge.net.
Warning: This is a total geek post, a lot of you “normal” RedPost/Blog readers aren’t going to make much sense of this. But essentially, what it all means is, 4 days after promised (following by formula for how to predict how long something will take to complete), you can now play video on your RedPost/Sign! [...]
I just uploaded a new version of Wicker, our open source operating system that runs on all RedPost/Signs, last night. Big changes to the underlying OS, including: upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 upgrading to Firefox 3 It’s still a bit buggy, but stable enough for non-critical use and testing. And some minor tweaks: updated [...]
Startup mode, in many senses, is perpetual (it’s my career). In another sense, it’s measured by how much Linux OS development (read: I’m not a true hacker, maybe something like a 10% hacker) I do. Someday, I won’t do any. Then I’ll know that RedPost isn’t in startup mode anymore.
First, the 2 steps forward: Friday we started shipping our updated Signbeta. We had some problems with the first hardware release…all of which have been fixed. Our non-beta hardware comes out this fall…2 year warranty, industrial-grade, high-volume ready, same price point…I can’t wait! Updates to the hardware: New, high efficiency, cooler, lower-power power supply internal [...]
With the latest release of Wicker, RedPost now supports Flash, almost. The problem is, Adobe doesn’t allow distribution of Flash with any digital signage software without paying hefty licensing fees. The open source alternative, Gnash, while decent, doesn’t work well with Youtube, which we want to support. But don’t worry, we’re working on a workaround, [...]
I just uploaded the latest version of Wicker (2008-06-11) to Sourceforge. It’s got a lot of bug fixes and feat Features: added Debian menus back (we had disabled them) so now there’s access to all the apps within fluxbox started playing with Ubuntu’s NetworkManager, it’s not fully working yet switched to the OpenChrome graphics driver [...]
